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You can't buy a hybrid cloud as a product nor as a service, and even if you could you would need to customise it for your unique requirements and constraints. The reality today is you need to buy the ingredients from a supplier then roll your own hybrid cloud and to manage this you need to put in place a Hybrid Cloud Manifesto.

The SPC-2 benchmark is a useful benchmark for bandwidth intensive sequential workloads, such as backup, ETL (extraction, translate, load) and large-scale analytics. Wikibon does a deep comparative analysis of the SPC-2 results, time-adjusting the pricing information to correct for different publication dates. Wikibon then analyses performance and price-performance together, and develops a guide to enable practitioners to understand the business options and best strategic fit. Wikibon concludes the Oracle ZS4-4 storage appliance dominates this high-bandwidth processing as of the best combination of good performance and great price performance at the high-end and mid-range of this market.

The thesis of the overall Wikibon research in this area is that within 2 years, the majority of IT installations will be moving to combine workloads together to share data using NAND flash as the only active storage media. This will save on IT budget and improve IT productivity, especially in the IT development function. Our research shows that these changes have the potential to reduce the typical IT budget by 34% over a five year period while delivering the same functionality to the business. The projected IT savings of moving to a shared-data all-flash datacenter for an organization with a $40M IT budget are $38M over 5 years, with an IRR of 246%, an annual ROI of 542%, and a breakeven of 13 months. Future research will look at the potential to maximize the contribution of IT to the business, and will conclude that IT budgets should increase to deliver historic improvements in internal productivity and increased business potential.

The Public Cloud market is still forming – but seems to be poised to soon enter the Early Majority stage of its development where user behavior, preferences, and strategies become more stable. Large enterprises are more discerning of Public Cloud IaaS offerings. Test and development appears to be a key entry point for them since scale, operational complexity, and security/compliance/regulatory demands require a more nuanced approach to Public Cloud for IaaS. Small and Medium enterprises have the greatest need for Public Cloud and should consider well-established, lower risk entry points to Public Cloud like SaaS, Email, and Web Applications before venturing into Mission Critical and IaaS workloads to help them navigate an increasingly complex and costly IT infrastructure environment.

Pope Benedict XVI’s Inaugural Tweet

In today’s mobile news roundup: The Pope makes his first tweet; Surface tablets to become available in non-Microsoft retail stores; and Yahoo! upgrades Mail and Flickr app.

Pope makes his first tweet

Though this news is not that surprising, given that almost everyone, from laymen to politicians, is on Twitter, this is huge since the tweets are actually coming from Pope Benedict XVI.

“Dear friends, I am pleased to get in touch with you through Twitter. Thank you for your generous response. I bless all of you from my heart,” his inaugural tweet read.

The message was sent from a tablet. Though it wasn’t actually the Pope who typed in the message, the Vatican assured everyone that the message was from him. Having a personal Twitter account entails the Pope to not only keep his over 700,000 followers updated with his message, but also to answer questions from people around the world. The Pope’s Twitter handle is @Pontifex.

Surface tablets to become available in non-Microsoft retail stores

Microsoft announced that they will be increasing production of the Surface tablet, as well as the availability of the Surface in other non-Microsoft retail stores. Plus, they announced that some of their holiday retail stores will be extended to become permanent Microsoft retail stores as they see the increase in demand for their products.

“The public reaction to Surface has been exciting to see. We’ve increased production and are expanding the ways in which customers can interact with, experience and purchase Surface,” said Panos Panay, general manager, Microsoft Surface.

In mid-December, shoppers in the US and Australia will be able to purchase the Surface tablet in retails stores, and they will be adding more retailers in various countries in the near future. In the US, Best Buy is one of the retail shops that will be carrying the Surface tablet, while in Australia both Harvey Norman and JB-HiFi are rumored to be the first sell.

Yahoo! upgrades Mail and Flickr app

In an effort to get back in the game and make their users happy, Yahoo! has updated Yahoo! Mail in order to deliver a faster service as well as a streamlined look and experience across different devices, from personal computer, tablets and of course smartphones.

“We’ve redesigned the new version of Yahoo! Mail with speed in mind — getting through your emails is faster than ever before. We’ve also made your inbox more intuitive and easier to navigate, allowing you to focus on what matters most: your messages. And, because mobile is everything these days, Yahoo! Mail now has a consistent look and feel across devices,” Yahoo CEO Marissa Meyer said on their announcement.

In other Yahoo! news, they’ve upgraded their Flickr app which now shows a new interface but the stand out feature is the new photo filtering options. The iOS app now features 16 photo filters and lets you share photos to friends on Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr or even e-mail contacts.

About Mellisa Tolentino

Mellisa Tolentino started at SiliconANGLE covering the mobile and social scene. Over the years, her scope expanded to Bitcoin as well as the Internet of Things. SiliconANGLE gave Mellisa her break in writing and it has been an adventure ever since. She’s from the sunny country of Philippines where people always greet you with the warmest smile. If she’s not busy writing, she loves reading, watching TV series and movies, but what she enjoys the most is playing or just chilling on the couch with with her three dogs Ceecee, Ginger, and Rocky.